How do you deliver your layoff message to people you are responsible for? What do you pay attention to? Things that you dont want to say? Tone, demeanor? Things to watch for? Share it with us
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@OP leadership has to follow the script. If you are on the mass culling calls you are muted as a tribute and have no chance to ask questions. Leadership reads the script at you and they are coached not to say sorry that you lost your job.
Leadership isn’t always about what you say. Sometimes, it’s about what your eyes scream silently across the room.
I once worked with a Senior Director whose teary-eyed game was next-level. Their expression consistently landed somewhere between “I just got let go” and “I just serviced the VP’s quarterly vision.”
And you know what? That’s leadership. That’s vulnerability. That’s playing 4D chess with corporate optics.
#ExecutivePresence #StrategicAlignment #C-SuiteSynergy #TearsAreKPIs
@ab of course we are sad. No one wants to lose head count.
@c2 and you are another useless human.
every company has a script, and none of them are unique at this point. go look up a video on someone getting laid off and that's what you'd hear.
A job is a job, RIF or not, never get emotionally tied to the job or company!!
Just another useless thread
just let them read the scipt and end the call. the die is cast no need to get emotional and in an instant become deaf d-mb and blind to anything company related. It is usually someone you have never talked to reading the script your manager may or may not be there they are never permitted to talk.
@ap agree. When I was rif’d it was with the DCO and HR. The call literally took less than 2 minutes. After he read the script I basically said ok and ended the call. I asked no questions because I didn’t care and they wouldn’t tell me the truth anyway.
If my boss called me to lay me off, I wouldnt let her finish the script. I would instantly shut my computer off and call it done. Im NOT going to let them have the last word with me and have that power.
Cameras and mics are turned off and they pretend to be sad when reading the script.
It’s a script as someone else said. They require it for legal purposes so the manager doesn’t say the wrong thing by accident.
They’re given a script to read.